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| 09/08/2001: New Zealand confirms it will ratify Kyoto Protocol and draws attack from business leaders: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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The New Zealand government announced on Thursday that it will ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change next year and was immediately attacked by business, farming and forestry leaders who said it would hurt the economy. |
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| 08/08/2001: Study Shows Inexpensive Ways to Limit Greenhouse Gases in India, China: Knight Ridder/Tribune |
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A series of studies conducted by Daniel Sperling, PhD, of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California at Davis is pinpointing inexpensive ways to curb heat-trapping emissions from the transportation sector in developing countries. |
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| 07/08/2001: Melting Polar Ice Threatens Blue Whales: United Press International |
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Blue whales, the largest-known mammals on earth, face possible extinction because increases in global temperatures are melting polar ice and reducing their food supply. |
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| 06/08/2001: Byrd Blasts Bush for Kyoto Position: Charleston Gazette |
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Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., on Tuesday harshly criticized the Bush administration's handling of international climate change negotiations. |
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| 05/08/2001: New York Times: McCain And Lieberman Urge Emission Limit: FT World Media Abstracts via Comtex |
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Republican senator John McCain and Democrat senator Joseph Lieberman on Friday issued a joint statement in which they warned that America's unilateral opposition to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could damage American business as well as the environment. |
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| 05/08/2001: Japan-U.S. Climate Talks Scheduled for September: Yomiuri Shimbun |
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Japan and the United States have agreed to hold ministerial-level talks late September on issues concerning the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for curbing global warming, government sources said. |
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| 03/08/2001: Global Warming Implicated in Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Spread of Asian Tiger Mosquito: NewsRx.com |
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The increase in incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden reported over the past two decades is directly related to the country's increasingly mild climate over the same period, conclude Stockholm University researchers in a paper in the July 5, 2001, issue of the Lancet. |
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| 01/08/2001: To Some Here, Global Warming Feels Real Today: Christian Science Monitor |
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Whether or not the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ever sees oil drilling, the Gwich'in people there, whose life is based on hunting and fishing, already see the environmental impact of an oil-based economy. |
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| 31/07/2001: UN: Bonn Decisions Promise to Speed Action on Climate Change: M2 Communications |
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Climate change negotiators are departing Bonn today after concluding work on an array of detailed decisions, some completed, others well advanced. |
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| 30/07/2001: Environment: Guessing Game on U.S. Review of Rejection of Kyoto: Inter Press Service (IPS/IMS) |
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The two-week long global climate change talks here have given rise to an international scenario, which the U.S. administration would find it hard to ignore, say high-ranking officials who steered the course of negotiations at the Bonn conference. |
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| 29/07/2001: Agribusiness ; Research to Curb Gas Belches Gets A Boost: The Dominion |
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THE agreement reached in Bonn this week on the Kyoto climate protocol has coincided with a New Zealand Government push to put more money into research on greenhouse gases produced by farm animals. |
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| 26/07/2001: Losing Precious Coral Reefs to Global Warming: The Record, Bergen County, NJ |
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BIGGER THAN ANYTHING EVER BUILT, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is about 92,000 square miles in size. Like all reefs, it's the product of trillions of tiny animals, no bigger than ants, building the reefs as they secrete limestone. |
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| 25/07/2001: Japan Calls for USA to Make Counterproposal on Kyoto Protocol: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political |
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Japan has asked the United States to swiftly come up with a specific counterproposal in relation to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, Japanese Ambassador Shunji Yanai said Tuesday [24 July]. |
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| 25/07/2001: Japan Premier Endorses Acceptance of Climate Change Rules: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political |
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gave the green light to Japan's acceptance of an accord on core elements of rules to implement the Kyoto Protocol early Monday, helping UN climate talks avoid collapse, senior Japanese and Dutch government officials said Tuesday. |
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| 24/07/2001: U.S. Sticks to Its Position on Kyoto: United Press International |
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President Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice Tuesday reiterated the U.S. position on the Kyoto agreement, saying that developing nations have to be included in any international arrangement for controlling global warming. |
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| 24/07/2001: Experts work on legal details after agreement on Kyoto: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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Expert groups from 180 nations began fine-tuning legal details Tuesday following agreement the day before on ratification procedures of the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. |
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| 24/07/2001: Business group welcomes deal on Kyoto: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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A business group representing 140 companies promoting clean energy mechanisms on Tuesday welcomed the deal on the Kyoto treaty on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| 24/07/2001: Researchers Forecast Rapid, Irreversible Climate Warming: Environmental News Network |
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There's a nine out of ten chance that global average temperatures will rise between three and nine degrees Fahrenheit over the coming century, with a four to seven degree increase most likely, according to a new probability analysis by scientists in the United States and England. |
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| 24/07/2001: Canada Moves Forward on Ratification of Kyoto Protocol without USCanadian Environmental Lawyers Call The Deal A Victory for The Atmosphere And A Historic Development in International Environmental Cooperation: Canada NewsWire |
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Canada is now a leader instead of a laggard in global environmental negotiations and has taken an important role in moving forward with the Kyoto Protocol - an international law aimed at reversing the devastating effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet's atmosphere. |
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| 23/07/2001: Last-Minute Deal Saves Kyoto Pact: United Press International |
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Negotiators from 178 countries reached a compromise agreement to salvage the Kyoto global warming accord after marathon talks ended early Monday. |
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| 23/07/2001: Climate Talks Approve Accord on Kyoto Pact Rules: Kyodo News |
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Countries participating in the ongoing U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, approved a final accord Monday on core elements of rules to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, paving the way for its enforcement in the target year 2002. |
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| 23/07/2001: Australia claims victory in Kyoto climate talks: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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An eleventh-hour compromise deal to salvage the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in talks in Bonn was a big win for Australia, officials said Monday. |
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| 23/07/2001: Kyoto protocol saved in crucial climate talks: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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A breakthrough was reached Monday at the United Nations Climate talks in the German city of Bonn with delegates from 180 nations accepting a draft document outlining procedures for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on halting global warming. |
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| 23/07/2001: Austria says climate agreement was "emergency operation" on Kyoto: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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The World Climate Conference agreement in Bonn on Monday was "an emergency operation" to save the Kyoto Protocol, said Austrian Environment Minister Wilhelm Molterer. |
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| 23/07/2001: Britain hails breakthrough at U.N. climate talks in Bonn: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday hailed the breakthrough at the United Nations climate talks in Bonn as the "most significant step" on the issue since the 1997 Kyoto agreement. |
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| 20/07/2001: Climate talks clear first hurdle, E.U. optimistic: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) |
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The United Nations Climate Conference cleared its first major hurdle on Friday when delegates agreed on a procedure for negotiations, prompting the European Union to express optimism that a deal could be reached by Sunday. |
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| 20/07/2001: U.S., Italy Pledge Joint Research on Climate Change: US Newswire |
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Recognizing the need to draw on sound science and the power of technology to reduce the uncertainty associated with future global climate and environmental change, the United States and Italy have agreed to undertake joint research in several critical areas... |
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| 19/07/2001: Koizumi Says Japan "Doing Its Best" to Save Kyoto Treaty: BBC Monitoring Newsfile |
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Japan dismissed criticism on Thursday that it was not doing enough to save the Kyoto treaty on global warming, insisting it was doing its best to ensure the treaty came into force by 2002 as agreed, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported. |
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| 19/07/2001: Leading Negotiator Says He's Still Optimistic the Pact Can Be Saved: USA TODAY |
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Talks on a treaty to combat global warming are inching forward and the pact could be rescued even though the United States has abandoned it, the head of the negotiations said Wednesday. Jan Pronk's comments came despite complaints by environmental groups that Japan, Canada and Australia were trying to kill the 1997 Kyoto Protocol by insisting on more leeway in quotas for greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| 19/07/2001: U.S. to Present Alternative to Kyoto Protocol at Cop7: Kyodo News |
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that the United States is ready to propose an alternative to the 1997 global warming pact at a U.N. conference scheduled for October. |
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| 18/07/2001: Japan Pledges Best Efforts to Reach Accord at UN Climate Talks: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political |
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Japanese Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi pledged Tuesday [17 July] that she will try her best to get an accord at UN climate talks in Bonn so that the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would be ratified next year. |
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| 18/07/2001: Seas Create Real Water Hazard Changing Climate at Root of Erosion That's Putting Links Courses in Jeopardy: USA TODAY |
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Don't look down when you drive off the eighth tee of the formidable Jubilee Course here. Four hundred yards of rock-filled wire cages are helping hold it up, but a good storm could wash it away. |
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| 17/07/2001: Environment: Bush, Koizumi Scored on Climate Change/RELATE: Inter Press Service (IPS/IMS) |
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Visiting lawmakers expressed exasperation with the US administration's stance on global warming Monday and urged Japan to break ranks with Washington. |
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| 17/07/2001: Koizumi Tells Schroeder Japan Will Work for Deal in Confab: Kyodo News |
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi promised German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Tuesday that Japan will do its best to reach an accord over the Kyoto Protocol on global warming at the ongoing U.N. climate talks in Bonn, a Japanese official said. |
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| 16/07/2001: To Combat Global Warming Debate Moves Past Whether It's Happening to What, If Anything, Should Be Done About It: USA TODAY |
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As officials from nearly 180 nations start to gather today in Bonn, Germany, to confront the vexing problem of global warming, the issue is no longer whether it is real, but what should be done about it. |
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| 16/07/2001: Russia Backs Kyoto Protocols, Ready for Discussion-Putin: Itar-Tass News Agency |
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President Vladimir Putin stated that "Russia abides by the Kyoto protocols," and is ready for discussions on this topic in Genoa. |
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